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Biography

Adam Sandler - Comedian an Actor


I chose Adam Sandler, because he is one of my favorite comedians and actors. In my opinion he is an allstar, due to his variety. He can sing, he can act and he is also a very funny comedian.

I think he is just a silly goofy guy who loves what he’s doing. As I said he is very talented, he is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, comedian and also musician.

But to reach these goals it was a long way. He was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 9, 1966 to Jewish parents. When he was a teenager he nurtured his talent by performing regularly in clubs and on campuses.

Good to know is that he was at NYU, because later in his career he used a lot experiences for material for his comedy. For example in the song "Lunchlady Land" he sings about the lunch lady from the NYU.

While he was a student at the NYU and performing on stages he was also auditioning for TV roles. In 1984 he finally got his first role on "The Cosby Show" and after that he got the chance to show his talent for creating memorable comedic characters on MTV's game show which was called "Remote Control".

But he is not a person who can stay at one place for a long time and so he moved from New York to Los Angeles where he was discovered by Dennis Miller who had seen him on stage in a little comedy club.

He was the one who told the producer of Saturday Night Live about Adam and that he would fit perfectly in the show. Then 1990 when he was 23 he auditioned with a little standup comedy with his friend Chris Rock in Chicago for the show, his friend was hired a performer and Adam was hired a writer for Saturday night live.

Within a year he created many characters like Iraqi Pete, Canteen Boy and Cajun Man but none of those had success like the Opera Man. This character was a bewigged and caped tenor singing in satirical, mostly they made no sense or were just dorky. PICTURE

After this success he was promoted to a repertory player in 1991. With the start of season 1993 he was promoted to full-fledged cast member, but this was his last but one season on SNL.

He was fired in 1995, because he was pushing to too far toward black humor. Due to that he was replaced by Will Ferrell who made jokes about political themes, so he was quite the opposite of Adam.

 But he had not just success with his dorky characters but also with his parody songs like the "Lunchlady Land" which I mentioned at the beginning. He wrote many songs which appeared on his double platinum-selling comedy album in 1993 which is called "They're All Gonna Laugh at You", but this was not his only album.

He wrote 4 more comedy albums which appeared 1996 "What the Hell Happened to Me?", 1997 "What's your name?",1999 "Stan and Judy's Kid" and 2004 "Shhh…Don't Tell". But his most famous funny but silly song was "The Chanukah Song „from the album "What the Happened to Me?" which was his 2nd double platinum selling album.

He performed the song as part of his stand-up act, later he updated it with new lyrics so there are 3 Parts. In the center of the song are the Jewish children who are feeling estranged during the Christmas season and Adam is listing Jewish celebrities in form of showing sympathy with the kids.

There are many celebrities who covered this song like Jimmy Fallon when he played in a sketch with Will Ferell Adam Sandler. And in this sketch they sang the Chanukah song with other lyrics, but the same structure.

His first such offering was Billy Madison in 1995, which was critically panned but a huge commercial and financial success among the male teen audience just like his following movies. This movie is about Billy Madison an adult who must go back to school in order to take over his father's company.

The title role was played by Adam himself but the comedy also features Chris Farley and Steve Buscemi which were both stars on Saturday Night Live. This is very typical for his productions because he said that he has so much faith in them that he wants that his friends of SNL play a role in his movies.

Many movies with the same structure followed like the golfing comedy "Happy Gilmore", "Bulletproof" or "The Wedding Singer". Thanks to a romantic storyline with Drew Barrymore, Adam gained a lot of female fans. His success firmly established with movie "The Waterboy" 1998 which was extremely profitable.

Here you can see the logo with Adam's late Father Stanley Sandler. The company's production office is located in a building on the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City in California while its corporate company offices are located in Manchester which his brother runs.

His first production under the Happy Madison banner was Rob Schneider's movie 1999 called "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo". Does anyone of you know any kind of movies from Happy Madison production? He produced and starred in movies like Mr. Deeds, 50 first Dates, Click, Jack and Jill, just go with it, I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry, you don't mess with the Zohan, Bedtime Stories and Grown up with  his friend Chris Rock who auditioned with him for SNL.

For his movies he got a lot of awards, but they weren't just positive like the People's choice awards or his own star on walk of Fame. There were also many negative references for example for the movie Jack and Jill. He got 5 Golden Raspberry Awards for example for the worst actor.

This movie underlines what a great actor Adam Sandler is, because now everyone could see that he is not just a comedy actor like in the movie You Don't Mess With the Zohan 2008, where he plays an Israeli commando who fakes his own death to move to America to pursue his dream of becoming a hair dresser, but also a very emotional and serious actor which the movie Reign Over Me points out.

And that's how Adam Sandler is in his private life. He is very funny, but he is also very emotional like his wife Jacqeline Titone said. The couple has two daughters Sadie Madison Sandler and Sunny Madeline Sandler.  Sadie is 6 years old and Sunny is 4 years old.

You can see them both here in the picture. He also stands up for the Boys and Girls Club in his hometown, Manchester.


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